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Treaty of Versalles imposed high taxes;and caused high mortality because of the naval blockade England did to Germany until the treaty was signed
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It was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It stipulated that Germany would deliver manufactured goods in exchange for Soviet raw materials
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The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact allowed Germany to attack Poland without fear of Soviet intervention.
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Britain and France, which had guaranteed five months before the protection of Poland’s borders, declared war on Germany after the assault. These events marked the beginning of World War II.
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The Germans entered Paris parading through the Champs Elysées and under the Arc de Triomphe. Two days later, France signed with Germany the Armistice that ended the war.
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It established an alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan, was also known as the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis.
These three countries recognized German hegemony over most of the European continent, Italian hegemony over the Mediterranean and Japanese hegemony over East Asia and the Pacific. -
The Balkans Campaign was opened in 1941 when Benito Mussolini ordered the invasion of the Kingdom of Greece. The failed Italian campaigns in the Balkans, motivated a German response that ended with the subjugation of the Balkan nations
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It was a violation of the German-Soviet pact and this caused Stalin’s union with the allied group, along with the U.S. president, Roosevelt, and Britain’s prime minister, Churchill.
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Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor and this expanded the conflict
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American, British and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy
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Since the invasion of Normandy has been known in the history of the Second World War as the "D-day"
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By the middle of August, Allied troops had surrounded and destroyed much of the German army in Normandy, in the Falaise bag. Led by General George Patton’s Third Army, the Allies advanced rapidly through France.
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Free French forces liberated Paris
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Allied air forces attacked Nazi industrial factories, such as the Auschwitz camp. The Soviets started an offensive and liberated Poland and Hungary. In the middle of February 1945, the Allies bombed Dresden, killing almost 100,000 civilians.
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Berlin was captured by Soviet forces in May 1945, and the Germans surrendered on 7 May 1945.
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The war in the Pacific ended, shortly after the U.S. They will use atomic bombs in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instantly killing one hundred and twenty thousand civilians.
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